BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

“Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy (post 3): Epilogue, Ending, Namelessness of Kid-Man were dictated by author’s committee of alternate personalities.

As noted in http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/cormac-mccarthy-on-the-power-of-the-subconscious-video, Cormac McCarthy implies—similar to the example he gives of novelist Henry Miller—that his own novels are “dictated” to him by a “committee" that resides in his “subconscious”; i.e., his alternate personalities.

So if you want to know: 1. why the kid/man is nameless, 2. what happens at the end of the novel between Judge Holden and the man (formerly the kid), and 3. what the Epilogue means, well, you just have to accept that this novel was dictated, behind-the-scenes, by a committee whose members don’t have to explain themselves, either to you or Cormac McCarthy.

Who says so? Cormac McCarthy’s host personality, who knows this explanation will be hard for you to accept, which is why he doesn’t like to give interviews.
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